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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:10:04 +0200
From:      Mike Jackson <mjj@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: df oddity (to a newbie)
Message-ID:  <20040201111004.GB14872@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040201093834.GA90729@eins.eckroth.net>
References:  <20040201093834.GA90729@eins.eckroth.net>

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ext Joshua Eckroth (jre9@humboldt.edu) wrote:
> I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently=
 giving me weird numbers:
>=20
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad5s1d  75685352 24426308 45204216    35%    /usr/home
>=20
> what's with Used + Avail !=3D 1K-blocks?

Hi,
 What's weird about it? FreeBSD reserves 5% of the space for the root
user on every filesystem. That's why it's not showing as available. It's
a feature, not a bug :-)

BR,
--
mike



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